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How Long Will South Africa Survive?:: The Looming Crisis
R. W. Johnson
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In 1977, Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of ANC in government, he believes the question must be posed again. 'The big question about ANC rule,' Johnson writes, 'is whether African nationalism would be able to cope with the challenges of running a modern industrial economy. Twenty years of ANC rule have shown conclusively that the party is hopelessly ill-equipped for this task. Indeed, everything suggests that South Africa under the ANC is fast slipping backward and that even the survival of South Africa as a unitary state cannot be taken for granted. The fundamental reason why the question of regime change has to be posed is that it is now clear that South Africa can either choose to have an ANC government or it can have a modern industrial economy. It cannot have both.'
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
C Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849045599
SKU
V9781849045599
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About R. W. Johnson
R.W. Johnson is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and was the only South African Rhodes Scholar to return to home after the fall of apartheid. He has published twelve books, scores of academic articles and innumerable articles for the international press.
Reviews for How Long Will South Africa Survive?:: The Looming Crisis
'Well-written and well argued, his book is at its best describing the eye-watering corruption, nepotism and gang-violence that seem to link powerful officials in Zuma's home province of KwaZulu-Natal to the wider ANC. ... That South Africa's black leaders appear to have fulfilled the worst predictions of their white supremacist predecessors makes uncomfortable reading. What surprises Johnson is how quickly they managed to do it.'
The Times; 'Provocative polemic ... produces a devastating charge sheet against the ANC.'
The Sunday Times; 'An immensely readable and disturbing book. Let us pray that his prophecies are this time mistaken. ...Ten years ago, Johnson would have been crucified for saying such things, but How Long? was greeted by an ominous silence in South Africa, making its way on to local bestseller lists without any review attention, not even attacks from Johnson's enemies. It seems even they are reconciled to the fact that Johnson is right again: South Africa is in crisis.'
Rian Malan, The Spectator; 'This book will undoubtedly be met with outrage among South Africa's political and intellectual elite. If so, it will not be because of any great deficiencies in the text, but because of the grip of ideology on the country's elite. By the same token, it will be hailed by some people in opposition circles simply because of the vigour with which it criticises not only South Africa's current government, but the entire history of the ANC since the late 1950s, as well as for its devastating critique of African nationalism more generally.' - Professor Stephen Ellis, Free University of Amsterdam, author of External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-90; 'Johnson's newest book speaks to the corruption that now riddles the country's body politic. As a result, it is increasingly up to the country's politicians, economic and business leaders and others to explain how they, if they were in charge, would arrest the decay and reverse the process. The country clearly wants to hear such things and is increasingly hungry for solid answers.'
Daily Maverick, South Africa
The Times; 'Provocative polemic ... produces a devastating charge sheet against the ANC.'
The Sunday Times; 'An immensely readable and disturbing book. Let us pray that his prophecies are this time mistaken. ...Ten years ago, Johnson would have been crucified for saying such things, but How Long? was greeted by an ominous silence in South Africa, making its way on to local bestseller lists without any review attention, not even attacks from Johnson's enemies. It seems even they are reconciled to the fact that Johnson is right again: South Africa is in crisis.'
Rian Malan, The Spectator; 'This book will undoubtedly be met with outrage among South Africa's political and intellectual elite. If so, it will not be because of any great deficiencies in the text, but because of the grip of ideology on the country's elite. By the same token, it will be hailed by some people in opposition circles simply because of the vigour with which it criticises not only South Africa's current government, but the entire history of the ANC since the late 1950s, as well as for its devastating critique of African nationalism more generally.' - Professor Stephen Ellis, Free University of Amsterdam, author of External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-90; 'Johnson's newest book speaks to the corruption that now riddles the country's body politic. As a result, it is increasingly up to the country's politicians, economic and business leaders and others to explain how they, if they were in charge, would arrest the decay and reverse the process. The country clearly wants to hear such things and is increasingly hungry for solid answers.'
Daily Maverick, South Africa